Engineering Manager

Overview

In this Engineering Manager (R&D) role, you lead development of new products and customer-specific solutions within a multinational engineering business. You’ll guide technical teams, manage multiple R&D projects, and collaborate with Sales, Finance, Quality, and Operations to deliver innovative technologies. The role combines technical leadership with project and people management, supporting growth in custom-engineered solutions and new markets. You’ll influence product certifications, IP protection, and continuous improvement, making a meaningful impact on fast-paced R&D programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of new products and technologies
• Drive design and development of customer-specific solutions
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and designers
• Review and approve technical designs, calculations, specifications and drawings
• Support complex customer applications and technical problem-solving
• Lead concept generation, feasibility studies, prototyping and product validation
• Coordinate testing and verification programmes
• Manage multiple R&D projects, delivering within scope, budget and timescales
• Allocate engineering resources across projects
• Provide technical support to Sales and Business Development teams
• Collaborate with Global R&D, Finance, Quality and Operations
• Support product certification, technical documentation and engineering change control
• Support innovation, IP protection, product improvement and related activity

Key requirements

• Degree in mechanical engineering, product design or a related discipline
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in product development or engineering
• Experience managing technical projects
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Excellent problem-solving ability

• leadership capability
• stakeholder management
• problem-solving
• mechanical engineering
• product design
• project management

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